Pip's Home Life

Pip lived without parents beginning when he was a very young child, so young that he could not remember them or what they looked like. Since their deaths, Pip stayed with his older sister and her blacksmith husband, Joe. His sister had a good reputation witht he neighbors because she claimed that she had raised Pip "by hand." Pip comes to learn what the term really meant, when she beats him with her cane. He is not treated as well as he would have been if he was living with his parents, because his sister sees him as somewhat of a burden. She says she would never chose to raise him "by hand" again. Pip and Joe seem to get along well, but he and his sister do not. Overall, Pip's life at home isn't the greatest a child could have, but he is thankful for the home he has.